Category Archives: Happening Now (quel che succede oggi)

In which we are brave and dive into rebranding, among other things 2018 is gonna be a big year, I can feel it in my bones. A year of excitement and brand-new adventures (big ones, little ones, in-between ones) and, most definitely, the year of stepping up and doing those things you’ve wanted to have … Continue reading →

Note from Flav: A couple of days ago I got an email from the awesome Laura at iRead Book Tours, mentioning that Next Century Publishing was doing a 20% off sale on all of J.K. Rowling’s books in order to bring attention to their Grant Program, which is giving away one million books to children … Continue reading →

You guys. We just launched our audio walking tour of Rome, and we’re all sorts of frantically excited about it. I can’t tell you how delighted I am to finally announce the project I’ve been working on since the end of 2015, so while I’m typing this, I’m doing a happy dance which consists mostly … Continue reading →

Ladies, unite: there’s a new way to network, and they’re in Rome next week. We’re women, and we have ideas. And passions, and a job, and friends, and family and dreams and about ten million other things, generally all going on at the same time. And we want, no, we need authentic connections – because … Continue reading →

Our favorite charity, Drawing Dreams, is at it again! If you’ve been reading YiR for a while (which I hope is the case!), then you know we’re always proud to promote the activities of the Drawing Dreams Foundation, a nonprofit organization out of Berkeley, California, that donates art supplies to more than fifty children’s hospitals, including the … Continue reading →

There are few ways that a man can win immortality, but if this can be done, then music is indubitably one of the chosen means. In 1944, Maestro Franco Ferrara conducted a stunningly successful concert in the 17th-century courtyard of Borromini’s Church of Sant’Ivo for a newly liberated Rome. Now, seventy-one years later, and thirty … Continue reading →